Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950)[1] is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987).[2] Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman,[3] is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000.[1] McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."
McLaughlin left filmmaking to practice acupuncture.[4] [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Artificial Memory | Short film [6] | |||||
| 1982 | Ordinary Sentence (Normalsatz) | (n/a) | [7] [8] (directed by Heinz Emigholz) | ||||
| 1983 | Born in Flames | Other Leader | also: camera operator | ||||
| 1984 | Committed | Frances Farmer | also: editor | ||||
| 1985 | Die Basis des Make-Up (The Base of Make-Up) | (n/a) | [9] (directed by Heinz Emigholz) | ||||
| 1985 | (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) | Justine | |||||
| 1987 | She Must Be Seeing Things | ||||||
| 1988 | The Big Blue | Myrna | (directed by Andrew Horn) | ||||
| 1988 | Die Wiese der Sachen (The Meadow of Things) | (n/a) | [10] (directed by Heinz Emigholz) |